safety alertalert exclamation

If you are in danger, please use a safer computer, call 911 or your local hotline or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233 voice), 1-800-787-3224 (tty). There is always a computer trail, but you can click ESCAPE to leave the site quickly.

home>addressing accessibility>

Addressing Individual Needs

Addressing Individual Needs

While Creating Welcoming Environments provides the tools to help providers incorporate universal solutions to accessibility when possible, it is important to remember that there is no one solution guaranteed to meet every accessibility need. It is important to remember that a diagnosis does not tell us everything we need to know about a person with a disability. Two people with the same diagnosis may have drastically different accessibility needs.

People with disabilities are as diverse as every other community and their accessibility needs are just as diverse. Some individuals and circumstances will inevitably require indivualized solutions for accessibility which may involve taking additional steps. By ensuring that your baseline obligations have been met and by taking steps to create a welcoming environment through Universal Design, you will find that you are in a better position to eliminate barriers specific to particular functional limitations.

In This Section

To support your organization's ability to create individualized access solutions, we have created the Individualized Access Guide. For each of the functional categories, the Individualized Access Guide provides information on the four environments with which survivors interface (Communication, Information, Physical, and Social & Policy) by considering the following for each environment:

  • What are potential access issues?
  • What are examples of problems?
  • What are suggested solutions?

This information is provided for each of the following categories of functional ability (including culturally Deaf):

Related Links